Dell Nears $23 Billion Deal to Go Private

2/4/2013 3:10PM

Dell Inc. on Monday was close to finishing a $23 billion deal to take itself private at between $13.50 and $13.75 a share, said people familiar with the matter. WSJ's Ben Worthen reports on Digits. Photo: Dell.

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... I ... breaking news about Dell's planted why add more details and matching the price ... now a round about thirteen dollars and thirty cents a tad below where it set to go private with out more details on maps and lots of other great stuff too ... K on Digits good afternoon and welcome I'm Simon Constable ... discuss travel West Coast will we have on this developing story ... from Ben Worthen at ben base T cells the week on just leaked out within the last ally ... of what is the most recent stuff ... well most recent thing and studied you've heard this before ... AG dolls really close to the deal to go private when reporting now is at the price will be between ... thirteen fifty in thirteen seventy five per share ... I again Michael Dell has been emerge with something close to a majority stake of Micra soft and Silver Lake the private equity firms are also involves and a big way ... now I understand that Microsoft will happen no bullets a sum of all it is that that that that seems to be something new because ... aam Micra soft ... you what a fool would of wanted to be on the board so they could upload Polaris of playing some of this great Dell computers ... it's a tricky balance for Micra soft because ... in a half to maintain relationships with every PC company doing that Hewlett-Packard and Lenovo and so forth then if they're seen as taking to activate hands ... any doubt that the damage those relationships as an aside just a day HP announced a new computer that will run Google's Chrome operating system ... I dunno that's a coincidence or not ... but what might be making supper will get is some sort of agreement from down that they'll use ... a weed as in the majority of Dell devices sell Micra soft will have some say the contractual protection ... as part of a deal ... that will be putting up some money as well to help bomb ... to help sell along that now do we have any idea of when this will finalize clearly has some money will have to be borrowed in the markets to to get this too will walk out so that is that transaction as well ... yet that that part seems to be pretty lined up this for banks that are going to raise about fifteen billion dollars between them ... there seems to be a healthy market for that ... yeah this deal has been he is away for weeks now in fact it's been about twenty one games to three weeks since news of the deal first leaked out ... aam tomorrow morning this afternoon that I've that spent thinking but ... new for me to death before as well ... yell well it's a very fast moving story in these things can fall apart only to move really quickly and obviously we'll be covering now this that the yes J live dovish Datacom thank you Brian much Dan Wheldon we appreciate your time ...